Jacqueline Thomsen

August 18, 2020 | National Law Journal

"The committee's experience demonstrated the potential for abuse of executive privilege, particularly as it relates to impeding a congressional inquiry," the Senate Intelligence Committee report found.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

8 minute read

August 17, 2020 | National Law Journal

The lawsuits, filed in federal courts in New York and Washington, D.C., seek court orders to restore the U.S. Postal Service to full service ahead of the November election.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

4 minute read

August 14, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

"The horror that Judge Esther Salas experienced less than a month ago underscores the urgent need for this action," said James Duff, the director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

3 minute read

August 14, 2020 | National Law Journal

"The district court has impermissibly ballooned the scope of its inquiry into allegations of bad faith to encompass a continued probe of Secretary Clinton's state of mind surrounding actions taken years before the at-issue searches were conducted by the State Department," the court found.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

5 minute read

August 14, 2020 | National Law Journal

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg trashed a Justice Department brief for having three pages of footnotes.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

3 minute read

August 14, 2020 | Law.com

President Trump's explicit stance on not funding the postal service over the upcoming election is raising new concerns not touched in previous litigation.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

10 minute read

August 10, 2020 | National Law Journal

"And after he ceased to be your boss, he remained your friend, mentor, and scholarly interlocutor for life," several of Williams' former law clerks said.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

6 minute read

August 10, 2020 | National Law Journal

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the District of Columbia said declarations the Trump administration filed in the case were based on "hearsay" and therefore weren't enough to justify blocking the release of the emails.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

4 minute read

August 08, 2020 | National Law Journal

"He had an uncommon love of ideas, an extraordinarily broad-ranging intellectual curiosity, an infectiously good-spirited demeanor, and a joyful sense of humor," D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan said. "We have been immeasurably enriched by the privilege of serving with him."

By Jacqueline Thomsen

5 minute read

August 07, 2020 | National Law Journal

"The majority's opinion is a Pyrrhic victory for Congress. Courts have many virtues, but dispatch is not one of them," Judge Thomas Griffith wrote of the D.C. Circuit's decision in the Don McGahn case.

By Jacqueline Thomsen

7 minute read